St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-03
The Kindness of Brothers.

Through some mistake no notice of
the death of John M. Gill appeared in
the GLOBE. He was travelling for the
Brush Electric Light company, from
Omaha, Neb., and was taken sick at
Aberdeen, Thursday, Aug. 4, and died
rather suddenly Sunday, Aug. z. The
travelling men present in the city at that
time manifested lively interest in
their deceased brother. Although he
was comparative stranger to them,
bound only by the simple tie of fellow
traveller, they appointed the neces-
Sary committees to take charge
of the remains and held gospel services
at the M. E. church in the evening,
Parker, the pastor, preached an excel
lent sermon, seemed to appreciate the
genuine sympathy of the forty earnest
men before him and talked not at them,
but with and almost as one of them.
Mr.. Gill was man about thirty-tiVe
years of age, and left a wife and two
children to mourn his sudden demise.
Altogether it was generous action on
the part of the commercial travellers,
and yet who is there more prompt with
sympathy and something more substan-
tial than the commercial travellers to
any call of distress? The chairman of
IL
from the widow sincerely thanking the
commercial travellers for their generous
action. In it she says: cit is the most
touching thing that l ever read or heard
OFF, She adds that her STEP
father, editor of the Utica On. "
Observer, was SO effected that he
desired to reply personally to the COM
municatiOns. That she herself would
always cherish the letter and reSolu-
lions, transmitting them to their child
rem, and that but for the commercial
travellers generosity she would not have
had the means at hand to perform the last
pleasure to the boys who so gener-
Ously contributed to know that their
charity was so fully appreciated and
wOrthily bestowed.
The communication in last SATURDAYS
GLOBE, with regard to conductors pull
ing down too much mileage, was timely
and to the point. AS rule, they pull
from one to three miles too much. A
thousand mile book is pulled on an
average of from forty to fifty times, this
means loss of fifty to hundred and
fifty miles on each book. Accordingly
we find conductor who takes neither
more nor less than is nominated in the
bond" The fault lies partly with the
sO-called ''tape form" of mileage, which
is difficult to tear without mutilating it
in some way. If curses both loud and
deep by conductors and commercial
travellers awaited aught, it would have
disappeared long ago.
have caught passing glimpse of H.
FL. Sabin's genial smile the other day as
he whirled by, reclining with his usual
elegance in parlor car, and was re-
minded of how he once Outfaked a fakir.
1t was at Huron, on the Jim. that he
was walking along the streets, when he
came upon an old man cautiously exam
lining some little packages Upon in
quiry Sabin found it was the old game
the man having bought the packages
with the expectation of finding five, ten
and twenty-dollar bills in them, to find
in reality nothing but soap. Sabin put
one of the packages in his pocket, and,
after time, coming across the fakir
mingled with the crowd. The fakir was
deXterOusly doing up ten and twenty
dollar bills in the packages before the
wondering crowd, and handed a pack
age containing the latter denomination,
to Sabin to attest its genuiness. For a
joke the latter effected a change and
passed back the old mans package,
which he had kept in his pocket all this
time. Seeing the change was not no
ticed Sabin quietly passed out of the
crowd twenty dollars ahead of the man
at his own game. The fakir when told
of it simply remarked that if any man
got ahead of him it WaS-all right.
ANDORY